“Le Réveil de Flore” di Marius Petipa: il debutto e la fortuna

Abstract

This article traces the life of Le Réveil de Flore, a ballet by Marius Petipa with music by Riccardo Drigo. Starting with a historical-critical analysis of the first performance – which took place in 1894 in Peterhof, near St. Petersburg, on the occasion of the wedding of the daughter of Tsar Alexander III – the essay depicts the various stages of the Petipa ballet’s fortunes. After remaining in the repertoire of the Russian imperial theatres, Le Réveil de Flore was performed again by the company of the famous ballerina Anna Pavlova until the early 1920s. After a long silence, it was performed in various versions, including the philological version curated by Sergey Vikharev for the Mariinsky Theatre in 2007, which remains in the repertoire to this day.